iPad tips and tricks for road warriors

It’s amazing what an iPad can do. And it’s dumbfounding when something simple doesn’t seem to work at all. As with any computing device, there are tricks to getting what you want with an iPad, at least some of the time.

I’ve pulled together the tips and tricks I find myself sharing with friends and colleagues repeatedly, the stuff that stumps people who aren’t exactly technophobic. Maybe they stump you, too.

Using Dropbox or Box with Apple’s iWork suite
These two cloud storage services — Dropbox and Box — are becoming all but standard tools for road warriors, allowing access to work files from any PC, Mac, iOS device, and Android device. There are none of the platform limitations of Microsoft SharePoint, nor the hassles of using FTP. And practically every business app supports these two services, except Apple’s iWork apps: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.